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Support page for the Old & Vintage Radio column in QST® magazine. Most months I provide additional information about the profiled radio or content of the column.
Scroll down to see everything, and check back after each new issue for more information about the column. |
K2TQN at the key in the Old Radio Museum.
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Shows, K2TQN Speaking Dates and Locations |
It's official, I'm speaking at Dayton 2016 on
May 20 Friday @ 2:30 room 5.
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Title & Presentation: "History: Old Transmissions and Voices from the Past."
PowerPoint includes Photos, Graphics, and the actual Voices of the following Wireless Pioneers telling their personal accounts and stories: Marconi, Jack Binns, Irving Vermila (Ham #1), Dr. Lee DeForest, Hugo Gernsback, Edwin Armstrong, John Reinartz (life story), Leon Deloy (French 8AB - first transatlantic QSO), Elmo Pickerill (first airplane-to-ground QSO, 1910), Art Collins, General Griswold (USAF- SAC), Clarence Tuska describing the start of QST magazine in 1915, an SOS from the passenger ship "PRINSENDAM" in 1980 and early Wireless Ship transmissions on 500kc CW.
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Collector Radio Shows |
Collector Radio Shows worth attending which are good sources of early parts for both ham and radio collectors.
March, 2016 - CC-AWA Charlotte, NC antique radio conference is 26-27-28 of March.
August, 2016 - RIT Inn & Conference Center,
5257 West Henrietta Road
Henrietta, NY 14467 USA
May, 2016 - Kutztown Radio Show in Pennsylvania
Spring, 2016 - The New England Amateur Radio Festival—
NEAR-Fest XVII at Deerfield Fairgrounds
May 1 and 2, 2015 |
Vintage Radio Columns from Earlier Years
(Not every month has a page) |
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Fuse Tester (new 4-1-2015)
Click - Schematic
I built one of these years ago and took it into the telco office where I was working. I put it on the table in the break room with a bunch of spare fuses. The only thing marked on the box was "Fuse Tester - If lamp lights fuse is good".
A couple of the telco guys told me it was no good because it blows the fuse every time they pushed the button. So I said, who told you to push the button? :-)
It was on April first after all.
(Everything in a telco office is fused, we were always changing fuses there.)
And I was also told it is impracticable to test fuses after they were blown. I just said, OK.
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